Posted on 07/26/2016 8:01:34 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
It’s in the middle of nowhere, and transport is expensive compared to it’s value, which is essentially nil.
Why would you process it into fake logs when there’s a nearly limitless supply of real logs all around you for hundreds of miles?
with smoke visible from space......... Heck license plate numbers are visible from Space too.
Have you ever tried to burn sawdust? It doesn’t usually burn well at all.
Please stop with the logic!
That’s a dung heap, not a sawdust dump.
One would think so. The nearest town has river transportation roughly in the center of Irkutsk Oblast, the Russian equivalent of a state. This Oblast is roughly 12.24 times the size of West Virginia and roughly the same shape. Not exactly a convenient location but, compared to much of Siberia, not exactly isolated either.
It does not burn well, but make a pile too big and it will catch fire from composting and smolder for a very long time. This pile sounds like it is x1000 in comparison to the ones we see here in the U.S.
A fire in a pile of sawdust this size is inevitable.
I once did the same with a large quantity of straw mixed with chicken manure. I wanted to release that nitrogen rich mixture on a field sooner.
Actually, take a shovel full of sawdust and toss it into the air over an open flame. It creates a pretty fun fireball an mushroom cloud... not that I have ever done anything this irresponsible.
Does seem like a waste to not separate the burning from non-burning and use it, maybe in a power plant, convert to pellets for heating (this is Siberia), or for building materials, etc. Just watching it burn seems pretty stupid.
SOunds like they should be manufacturing wood pellets.
Wood pellets
Yep, just like flour. Nasty little fireball. That’s why they have grain elevator explosions, coal dust explosions and sawdust collector explosions.
I think it more accurately is an excrement dump!!! At least at this moment.
The dust!
The dust!
The dust is on fire!
not the problem.
If you care about climate, burning wood is carbon neutral since it comes from trees that absorbed the CO2 from the air as it grew.
The sawdust pile is still small compared to the rest of the wood that was shipped elsewhere.
It’s 25 acres
Big deal
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